The love or fascination with bees, often leading to admiration of their behavior, honey-making skills, or aesthetic appeal.
Person 1: “I just spent three hours watching bee documentaries and now I want to be a beekeeper.”
Person 2: “Your apiphilia is showing.”
Person 2: “Your apiphilia is showing.”
by Hippopotomonstresesquipedalio February 24, 2025
The love of using long, complex, and often unnecessarily large words in speech or writing, typically to sound intelligent or impress others.
Teacher: “Can anyone describe photosynthesis?”
Student: “It is the biochemical autopoietic mechanism by which chlorophyllous flora harness photonic energy to synthesize glucose.”
Teacher: ”…So, plants use sunlight to make food.”
Student: “Precisely! My sesquipedaliophilia makes it impossible to simplify.”
Student: “It is the biochemical autopoietic mechanism by which chlorophyllous flora harness photonic energy to synthesize glucose.”
Teacher: ”…So, plants use sunlight to make food.”
Student: “Precisely! My sesquipedaliophilia makes it impossible to simplify.”
by Hippopotomonstresesquipedalio February 24, 2025
An intense fear of plutonium, whether due to its radioactivity, association with nuclear disasters, or just the ominous sound of the word.
Person 1: “I can’t even look at the periodic table without panicking at element 94.”
Person 2: “Dude, your plutoniophobia is getting out of control.”
Person 2: “Dude, your plutoniophobia is getting out of control.”
by Hippopotomonstresesquipedalio February 25, 2025
The irrational fear of existing, often leading to existential dread, overthinking, or the desperate wish to cease consciousness altogether.
Person 1: “Ugh, I have to wake up, go to work, pay bills, and just… exist?”
Person 2: “Sounds like a bad case of existanphobia.”
Person 2: “Sounds like a bad case of existanphobia.”
by Hippopotomonstresesquipedalio February 25, 2025